International

MASS demonstrations were held across Palestine and throughout the Arab world yesterday after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by Israel in the Iranian...

SYRIA yesterday began an offensive to take back its entire territory launching a new assault on Idlib, the last part of Syria still controlled...

SPAIN’S two largest unions led their first general strike since 2012 yesterday, as workers set up picket lines through storms to demand higher wages...

‘I WAS admitted into A&E on Tuesday afternoon and was returned to Pentonville by Friday evening,’ said pro-Palestinian hunger striker Kamran Ahmed yesterday. Ahmed, one...

ISRAELI fighter jets continued bombarding high-rise buildings and other targets in the Gaza Strip using F-15 fighter jets yesterday, as Palestinians marked the Eid...

A GENERAL strike took place yesterday in the Palestinian city of Jenin in mourning for the six citizens killed in a massacre committed by...

THE Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza run by Hamas, yesterday said that the famine is worsening in the Gaza Strip, warning against false...

AS the united Nations officially confirmed that the Israeli war on Gaza is a ‘GENOCIDE’ yesterday, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) massively escalated their...

THE Strait of Hormuz is ‘declared completely open’ for the ‘remaining period of ceasefire,’ Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said yesterday. In a statement on...

GAZA’S Health Ministry has detected about one million cases of infectious diseases, but doesn’t have the medical capabilities to treat them, as the situation...

AN AFGHAN security forces member has been killed in a gunfight by ‘unknown assailants,’ as US and German troops joined the fighting at Kabul...

YESTERDAY’S General Strike across Israel was pronounced illegal by the Tel Aviv Labour Court, which ordered the Histradut union organisation to call it off...

ISRAELI forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza yesterday morning setting it alight. This was after airstrikes on a nearby building killed 53...

THE UNITED Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed resolution on Palestine statehood on Tuesday, with 172 countries voting in favour of the resolution. The resolution affirmed...

SOUTH Korea’s biggest umbrella labour group, the Confederation of Korean Trade Unions (KCTU), yesterday called an indefinite nationwide strike to continue until president Yoon...

US FIREFIGHTERS are dying from asbestos-related diseases as a result of being sent in to clean up after the collapse of the Twin Towers...

THE WHITE House is pushing a proposal to instal former British prime minister Tony Blair as head of a so-called Gaza International Transitional Authority,...

THE Israeli occupation forces (IOF) yesterday hijacked at dawn the Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen and kidnapped the activists on board. The vessel, operated by the...

IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said yesterday that the threat of war against Iran and the region must be eliminated, and Tehran will...

TWELVE Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces in several areas in the occupied West Bank yesterday, including nine youths. Two youths and a child were...

THE Hamas Movement, along with the Palestinian presidency, welcomed the UN General Assembly’s overwhelming adoption on Thursday of a resolution calling for an immediate,...

JERUSALEM – Israeli police yesterday morning quelled a rally against the forced expulsions of Palestinian families from the Batn al-Hawa area of Silwan in...

The Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli occupation army’s ongoing raids and crimes and its persistence in assassinating resistance fighters in the West...

THE CENTRAL Intelligence Agency (CIA) intends to arm Kurdish militants in a bid to trigger a civil war in Iran after the United States...

AT LEAST 17 people, including two infants, have been killed and another 20 injured in Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon over the past 48...

RUSSIA has issued another warning against a proposal made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on ‘a true European Defence Union’. The Kremlin...

THE DEATH toll from Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip has reached 72,317, Gaza’s health ministry reported yesterday, as fresh attacks killed a 13-year-old...

AT LEAST 20 people were killed in Israeli strikes on homes in Rafah overnight yesterday, including nine members of the Abu Taha family. It was...

INTERNATIONAL rights groups say Israel has failed to meet a deadline set by the United States to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza...

THE Hamas leader in Gaza, Dr Khalil al-Hayya, arrived in Egypt yesterday to begin negotiations on the mechanism for a ceasefire, withdrawal of occupation...

A NEW report documenting several violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israel during its recent military attack on the Gaza Strip from 10-21...

‘ANY military operations in Rafah – with its limited space and crowding with over 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the Israeli army – would...

CHINA and Russia are rallying behind Venezuela, warning against an imminent military intervention into the Latin American country. It is facing a showdown today...

IRAN’S new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei made his first public statement since succeeding his father yesterday, vowing that Iran would avenge the blood of...

HAMAS said yesterday it had accepted a ceasefire framework reached through indirect talks in Cairo and based on a proposal by Donald Trump. The movement...

SAVE the Children has condemned the excessive use of force by Israeli forces against children in the occupied Palestinian territory, which has resulted in...

CHINESE artificial intelligence company DeepSeek entered ‘holiday mode’ for Lunar New Year yesterday, having crashed the US stock market the day before. The most notable...

FOURTEEN thousand babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours if aid doesn’t reach them,’ United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs...

ISRAELI forces raided towns and villages across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem overnight and yesterday. In Biddu, northwest of Jerusalem, they seized a house,...

THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned yesterday that Gaza’s food system has completely collapsed, as famine tightens its...

ECUADORIANS have taken to the streets in the capital Quito against the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the country’s embassy in London. The...

THE High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, said on Thursday that the United Nations is under...

NEARLY 1,000 current and former Israeli air force reservists have issued a public letter demanding an immediate halt to Israel’s military assault on Gaza,...

TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has struck more than 100 targets in the city of Tel Aviv in retaliation for the...

JUMA AL-BATAN, a 20-day-old baby, died from ‘severe cold’ yesterday, while his twin brother remains in the intensive care unit at a local hospital,...